Hi Jay, Thanks for your reply.
Managed to work out the single user mode stuff ... just as you say thanks. As for the Voodoo .....mmmm. Bought some time ago for a wintel machine and thought the 1000A would make a nice gnome workstation (overkill???) so put it in there instead. Sort of given up now. I can get hold of a Matrox Millennium so I will give that a try. Oh .... now using RedHat on the machine. Would rather have Debain but all seems to work although the 1meg video card gives me sh*t resolution. I think I will stick with Sparcs in the future. Got the Alpha for around $100 ... bargain?? Thanks for your help (-: Cheers Iain __________________________________________ Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.forwardcontrol.com http://www.agilent.com (work) -----Original Message----- From: Jay Estabrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 September 2000 20:54 To: Iain Johnstone Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Single User Mode? On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 10:57:45PM +0100, Iain Johnstone wrote: > > How do you boot into single user mode on a DEC 1000A 5/400 in SRM? I > screwed up on the X setup )-: Add "single" to the -flags argument(s), ie -flags "root=/dev/sda3 single". > Also, has anyone got a X to work with a Voodoo3 on Potato on the > above hardware? Both 3.3.6 and 4.0.x have working Voodoo3 support, IIRC, though 4.0.x is problematic on EV56 machines with some servers. The problem area is most likely that the SRM console's BIOS emulator may not like the BIOS code on the card. Only advice is to FLASH the latest release of SRM available for 1000A, and see what happens. Hold on to your receipt in case you have to return the card... :-\ Good luck. --Jay++ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Jay A Estabrook Alpha Engineering - LINUX Project Compaq Computer Corp. - MRO1-2/K20 (508) 467-2080 200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----
